Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
He was a Black man held in a county jail along with nine other men. At night, a large party of Ku Klux Klan members took the ten men from the jail and shot them to death. He was killed after the mob took him from the custody of the jail that was holding him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.